>>>STF Challenge 163: Information (Free Study~Anonymous)<<<

Sorry but the way I upload it automatically puts in my name. I tried changing it but it didn't work. Please fix it Melanie.
Thanks,
Ann
PS You choose a name for me. Then anybody who didn't already see it won't know.
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Painting & Photography:
http://www.annchaikin.com
http://www.pbase.com/ptkitty/galleries
Family Website:
http://www.achaikin.com

"Old" folks like me who are on the submission list get our names put in automatically. How can we change the name. I tried by using a different artist name but it didn't work.
?
Ann
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Painting & Photography:
http://www.annchaikin.com
http://www.pbase.com/ptkitty/galleries
Family Website:
http://www.achaikin.com

...as I don't have a Pbase gallery of my own. It may be necessary to use Upload Method #1 in order to remain anonymous (instead of the method wherein you are logged into your own Pbase account). I don't think I can change someone's name when they use Method #2. But I can certainly re-upload your photos using the old way--and then I can correct your name. Would you like me to do that?

Anybody know another way around this?

Melanie

...somebody fixed it!

The original name link has been fixed. Ann -- just e-mail Melanie with your desired new nickname and she'll be able to add it to the entry as it now stands. No need to kill it off completely and reload it.

mlynn said:

...as I don't have a Pbase gallery of my own. It may be necessary to
use Upload Method #1 in order to remain anonymous (instead of the
method wherein you are logged into your own Pbase account). I don't
think I can change someone's name when they use Method #2. But I can
certainly re-upload your photos using the old way--and then I can
correct your name. Would you like me to do that?

Anybody know another way around this?

Melanie

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--
Mike
Melbourne

You have some oversized images in the gallery. Bubbles, all of your images exceed 800 pixels on the longest side; Boomer, 2 or yours exceed 800 pixels (A Cold Day and Red Heads); and waco, your 'Round the bend...' also exceeds 800 pixels. None of these are panoramic images, so they don't really need to exceed the 800 pixel recommended maximum. Please resize them when you get the chance. You can simply replace them with a slightly smaller version on the edit image page, using the 'upload an image to replace the current image' feature. This will keep the comments and whatnot intact.

(Actually, I rarely even go as big as 800 pixels with most of my images. 640 pixels on the longest side seems sufficient most of the time (and leaves me room to add a border if I wish).)

Thank you for your attention!

--Melanie

for the new challenge number. Sorry, I just now remembered.

No text.

http://www.photosight.us/

--Melanie

This was touched on in response to Ann's question; Mike F. later added some text to the galleries themselves. To quote:

'Because this is an ANONYMOUS Challenge, Upload Method #2 cannot be used this time for your entries if you are a PBase private subscriber. Instead, you must start by logging OUT of PBase. Once you have done that, use Upload Method #1 - just click "edit this gallery" followed by the password "stfpost" (without quotes). Remember to append a suitable nickname to the titles of your images.'

There are workarounds if you do use Method #2, but it might be simpler just to avoid that.

Thanks!

--Melanie

...if you see the galleries changing appearance. I'm just playing with style sheets .

--Melanie

...I hope everyone has the chance to get out and take some pictures this weekend.

--Melanie

I wonder, mlynn, why
you play with the "style-
sheet" of our challenge?

To me, the galleries' "look"
is a sort of their presenta-
tion, their "business card",
their "corporate logo":
When I open a page be-
longing to "stfchallenge",
its "style" shows me im-
mediately whether I am
where I wanted to go.

If you copy--as you've
done now--the appear-
ance of another dpr-
challenge, you unnec-
essarily confuse those
of us participating in
both.

I, for myself, am against
the idea of each and every
host changing the "façade"
of the pages at their will.
At least, I'd suggest a dis-
cussion here before engag-
ing in graphic reshaping
or--as you say--"playing"
with the style-sheet.

--
db.

...the only similarity to the other challenge was perhaps the font and the positioning of the gallery titles to the left rather than the right. The colors were completely different, and the thumbnails were the same as they were before here at stf. I took some of the elements from the Karen_1109 (such as the scroll bar thingy). Truth is, I find it awkward having the gallery titles so far over to the right they appear they are going to fall off the page (I always have the urge to scroll, even if I don't need to). I see no problem with someone changing the look of the gallery now and again, it used to be quite common. But I also don't want to cause any bad feelings, so changed it back.

--Melanie

I just got a bad feeling
about my previous post,
thinking its "sound that
makes the music" was
possibly not clear enough
and might have been per-
ceived as pronounced in
a somewhat unfriendly
way.

So, please, let me clarify:
my words were absolutely
not meant in an impo-
lite or unfriendly way. Not
at all!!

I just wanted to voice my
opinion on the subject...

Best regards,
Daniel

--
db.

I was just curious how stylesheets worked, and wanted to experiment with different color schemes. But since I don't know what I'm doing, I was borrowing elements from a couple different sources; and maybe it did look a little too much like another challenge.

I still don't know what I'm doing, but I went ahead and modified the Karen1109 a little bit to bring the titles a little more in from the right side. (I couldn't find the text for that stylesheet, so had to use the hitcount stylesheet and another one to experiment with. I'd like to be able to do one from scratch, but I need to read up on such things a little more--and may never find the time to do that.)

I think I'd still like to play with the color scheme one of these days, as I find I'm getting a bit tired of the current one--but maybe that's just me. And I don't want to step on any toes if others are happy with things as they are.

If you look back several challenges, the stylesheets changed every so often depending on what the host preferred at the time.

--Melanie

a slap on the wrist for being creative. Whodda thunk?
Well, I thought it was a great idea anyway.
jp

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I like making pictures.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/inframan

From the 1976 album "Silk Degrees". In my mind the entire album was great.

I have to say that this causes me to wonder where Melanie is seen (and by whom) as fitting into "our" -- as in "our challenge".

As it happens -- and few would be aware of this -- I cannot think of any one person who has maintained a closer personal involvement with the Challenges, behind the scenes, over the past three-four years than Melanie. I'm referring specifically to her constant eye on the STFchallenge database. Like clockwork. And 100% reliability has no price on it. (Not that it in any way starts and ends there, however.)

The last thing that she should be made to wear is the mantle of some nameless lackey, out there toiling for, and at, "our" collective pleasure.

Looking a bit further into that "our", well, to have an "our" there first has to be an "us".

Now is somebody about to bite the bullet and attempt to define "us"? Here, as a spin-off from a public forum with no hard and fast membership requirements?

Well in determining the "us" I wish you luck. But if, in doing so, you should feel inclined to build some kind of fence, you may rest assured that Melanie will be found on THIS side of it!

By the way, just in case there should remain any residual confusion about what is "allowed" on the part of a host, perhaps the reminder needs to be given that it has ALWAYS been the host's prerogative to modify the gallery appearance to his/her taste on the occasion of a given Challenge. Aside from obvious matters of civility and decorum, very, very few actual "rules" exist regarding the conduct of Challenges (the main one being image pixel dimensions, and the other being Challenge timing (mainly close of entries) towards which we are currently gravitating in the interest of ensuring adequate running time). There are no official leaders, and no staff, and it all seems to work quite nicely by consensus. IMHO nothing has changed that would alter the wisdom of keeping things that way.

And I rather fancy I can finish that off with a hearty and well-rounded "Sheesh!"

db. said:

I wonder, mlynn, why
you play with the "style-
sheet" of our challenge?

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--
Mike
Melbourne

Mike: I've got your
message and accept
the blame fully; es-
pecially coming from
you (knowing perfect-
ly well how much work
you do behind the
scenes for our chal-
lenge, as well as does
Melanie).

As I had written before,
I realized myself and am
aware of the fact that my
initial remark had not
sounded as intended,
something that can hap-
pen easily when one writes
in a language that is not
one's own.

I did already--and, if really
necessary, do again--apol-
ogize. I'd appreciate your
accepting my apologies.
(What else do you con-
sider appropriate? Ashes
on my head?? My kneel-
ing in front of the sup-
posedly offended??)

As far as my "appropria-
tion" of "our" challenge
goes: after years of reg-
ularly participating I think
I may call it ours, though
I do not do any of all the
work for it you--and others
--do. I was not building
a fence (as you imply); on
the contrary: I spoke about
the challenge we all belong
to.

Finally, I can't conceal my
wondering if your final
«hearty and well-rounded
"Sheesh!"» --after I had
"voluntarily" apologized
before receiving any re-
proof by anyone--might
have been as exaggerat-
ed as the ill-fated sound
of my own first remark.

You'll be able to judge that:
we are talking in your moth-
er tongue here (not mine)...

Best regards,
Daniel

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db.